Methods

Returns a list of links causing the requested needle packages to be installed, as an associative array with the dependent's name as key, and an array containing in order the PackageInterface and Link describing the relationship as values.

Details

Returns a list of links causing the requested needle packages to be installed, as an associative array with the dependent's name as key, and an array containing in order the PackageInterface and Link describing the relationship as values.

If recursive lookup was requested a third value is returned containing an identically formed array up
to the root package. That third value will be false in case a circular recursion was detected.

Parameters

string|string[]

$needle

The package name(s) to inspect.

ConstraintInterface|null

$constraint

Optional constraint to filter by.

bool

$invert

Whether to invert matches to discover reasons for the package NOT to be installed.

bool

$recurse

Whether to recursively expand the requirement tree up to the root package.